Anytime Fitness

Anytime Fitness is a 24-hour health and fitness club. The company operates over 2700 franchised locations in 19 countries.[1] The gym facilities are open 24 hours a day, 365 days out of the year. Chuck Runyon, Dave Mortensen, and Jeff Klinger founded Anytime Fitness in 2002. Runyon is the CEO of the company. Anytime Fitness is based in Hastings, Minnesota. According to Forbes, Anytime Fitness is the fastest growing health club franchise in 2014

Chuck Runyon, Dave Mortensen, and Jeff Klinger founded Anytime Fitness in 2002. Eric Keller, a former employee of Southview athletic club was interested in Runyon, Mortensen and Klinger's business concept and agreed to become the first franchise owner of Anytime Fitness. Runyon, Mortensen and Klinger provided Keller with support in choosing a site location, marketing strategies, equipment selection, and membership sales. The first franchise location opened in Cambridge, Minnesota later that year. Runyon, Mortensen and Klinger chose the site because of the lack of other fitness clubs in the immediate area and a population large enough to support a fitness club. Shortly after, two more locations were opened by former Southview athletic club employees Duluth and Albert Lea, Minnesota. Runyon, Mortensen and Klinger sold 29 franchises before they opened their own corporate-owned location in Bemidji, Minnesota.

As of 2014, Anytime Fitness has over 2400 gym locations and 2 million clients. Each location is open 24 hours a day, 365 days out of the year. Members have secure access to facilities including unstaffed hours with a computerized key fob. There are gym locations in all 50 US states, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, England, Scotland, Ireland, Grand Cayman, Poland, the Netherlands, Spain, Qatar, India, Chile, Japan and Singapore. In 2012, the company had 120 employees. Approximately 100 of them were located in Hastings, Minnesota. 75% of the Hastings employees worked directly for the company while the other 25% worked for ancillary businesses Provision Security and Healthy Contributions. Provision Security supplies clubs with surveillance systems and Healthy Contributions offers billing and processing work for clubs who work with health benefit providers.